What’s the purpose of this link? What would you like me to get out of it? I don’t see anything in here that suggests 20 minute workouts are superior. The shortest duration in this entire article mentioned is 50 minutes, which falls within the range I suggested of 45 minutes to 2 hours.
Staley’s point about making big jumps in warmup weights, and not resting forever between warm up sets, is something I do agree with, and practice. I actually perform even fewer warmup reps than he suggests here. I don’t go over sets of 5 for my warm ups, and I often make bigger jumps. Let’s take deadlift. A lot of the time, my first warm up set is 245, because I just load a 100 lbs plate on each side of the bar to avoid taking all the 45’s, and to spend less time loading. My next set I might just jump to 415.
Hard working sets take a long time though, man. I might work up to, say, a few triples at 545. 3-4 minute rest periods is about what I need to be able to lift that heavy, and get multiple sets in. Then I usually drop weight to something in the 300-400 lbs range, and do 3 or 4 sets of 10. Similar rest periods. Then I might move on to front squats, or ssb squats, and do about 3 sets of 10 with a couple minutes between each set. Then I’m likely to finish with a few sets on the reverse hyper machine and leg press, if I’m feeling frisky.
So that’s 4 lifts, with a total of… I don’t know. 12-20 working sets. That’s probably the range I’m usually in. That’s not a huge volume. My rest periods are reasonable, given that I want to be lifting relatively heavy weights. If I was working well below my capacity, I wouldn’t have to rest as long as I do, but I also wouldn’t make the progress I’m making. So you do the math. How do I get a session like this done in 20 minutes? For me, this is one of the workouts I’m finishing in 45 minutes to an hour. Upper body workouts tend to take longer because I’m doing a wider variety of lifts, given that the upper body is more complicated. Then my strongman sessions take even longer because loading strongman implements just takes a long time, I work with a group, and I’m working very close to my max capacity, as I’m training for specific competition events.
How, then, would you suggest I improve my training?